Actress KATIE HOLMES has changed more than just her religion since she started dating TOM CRUISE last year (05) - she's now altered her first name.

Despite her strict Catholic upbringing, the former DAWSON'S CREEK beauty converted to Scientology when she began her relationship with the TOP GUN heart-throb, and will bring up their baby daughter SURI in the controversial religion.
After discussing the issue with Cruise, Holmes has decided her Christian name 'Katie' sounds too young for a 27-year-old and is now known to friends and family as 'Kate'.
Cruise explains, "Katie is a young girl's name. "Her name is Kate now she's a child-bearing woman." (ES/WNTSU/SH)